Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2021-10-31, 14:49

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by Garrett W

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A lot actually, I'm running out of space, although certainly not as many as some of the folks here. Off the top of my head: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 2x Voodoo 2 12MB (one of them installed in a K6-III+ system) 2x Voodoo Banshee PCI (both installed, one in an MMX 233 system and another in a dual PPro 233) 2x …

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Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos

Posted on 2021-10-05, 23:26

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by Garrett W

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Are you guys about done jacking off to your delusional, political correctness gone mad "what if" scenarios? Can we get back on track now? I have some techdemos archived from years prior, namely: Bubble Chameleon Creature Dawn Lightning LightScattering Nalu HumanHead Squid If any of these is not …

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Re: Graphics card for Via C3 Nehemiah builds?

Posted on 2021-10-05, 17:51

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by Garrett W

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It's essentially just as flexible (if not more IMO) as a K6+ chip and you get (much) better performance if you want it. The K6-III+ system I had was lovely and I used it as my go-to retro system, but there were a lot of games I wanted to play from 1998-1999 that did not run to my satisfaction. As it …

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Re: Sound blaster live 5.1 and stuttering in deus ex

Posted on 2021-10-05, 16:49

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by Garrett W

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Perhaps you should take a look whether you're using VXD or WDM drivers.

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Re: Graphics card for Via C3 Nehemiah builds?

Posted on 2021-10-05, 00:34

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by Garrett W

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I realize this is not really viable for most folk, but I've paired my Nehemiah 1.2 running at 1466MHz with a Voodoo5. From various benchmarks found online, I've come to the conclusion that for 3D games the Nehemiah core is about as fast as a Coppermine or Athlon at half the frequency. So I figure my …

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Re: 486DLC gets uncomfortably hot, occasionally crashes

Posted on 2021-09-22, 23:42

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by Garrett W

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Yeah it does get toasty in there. I had to install a heatsink and fan on mine just for peace of mind. However, crashes might not be heat related. There was another thread a while ago where we discussed different 486DLC tweaks and issues with L2 cache chips not being up to snuff.

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Re: Trident 8900D on 486DX2-66 system - VLB replacement?

Posted on 2021-07-30, 14:44

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by Garrett W

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mockingbird wrote on 2021-07-30, 14:29: Honestly, what no one will admit to you is that there is absolutely no performance benefit going from ISA to VLB unless you are running Windows 3.1 or above. Ther is no benefit in DOS with a VLB videocard, period. citation needed

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Re: Kingston TurboChip socket 7 voltage regulator related questions

Posted on 2021-07-29, 15:55

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Many thanks for the tips and datasheet, I'll look into it a bit more!

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Kingston TurboChip socket 7 voltage regulator related questions

Posted on 2021-07-22, 18:30

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by Garrett W

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Greetings! I have a Kingston TurboChip TC366 which used to house an AMD K6-2 366. As far as I can tell, this is a voltage regulator that runs in-between the board and CPU, so as to make sure that the correct voltage is applied. In the case of the K6-2, I believe that CPU required either 2.2v or 2.4V …

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Re: AMD K5 PR166 @133MHz

Posted on 2021-07-04, 12:04

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by Garrett W

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Hey that's pretty cool! I would honestly not really care to much about potential danger to the CPU, it's not like you'll be running it as a daily driver anyway and the voltage bump is minimal anyway.

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Re: Bad performance with AB-PB4 + Cyrix

Posted on 2021-06-30, 21:27

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by Garrett W

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So, as others have said already, don't expect miracles out of the Cyrix processor, especially when it comes to Quake. It's no wonder the POD performs better, as Quake is really one of the best case scenarios for Pentiums. In my case, I get exactly 17 FPS on timedemo 1, using Phil's Benchmark package …

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Re: Bad performance with AB-PB4 + Cyrix

Posted on 2021-06-30, 11:03

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by Garrett W

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a similar system, I'll upload my settings for you once I get home.

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Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling

Posted on 2021-06-28, 08:09

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by Garrett W

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It seems heat related to me, giving the machine a rest brings it back to its full performance. One solution is to enable Triple Buffering, which largely alleviates this phenomenon (it also helps with input lag!). No, triple buffering adds one frame of lag. Yes, that's actually rather obvious in …

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Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling

Posted on 2021-06-27, 23:48

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by Garrett W

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It seems heat related to me, giving the machine a rest brings it back to its full performance. Voodoo5 has no temp sensor or ability to downclock in an attempt to throttle and protect the chips from overheating. Neither do the Athlons until perhaps Athlon 64(?). These concepts would largely emerge …

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Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling

Posted on 2021-06-27, 21:26

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by Garrett W

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That sounds like the effects of double buffered V-Sync.

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Re: Pył, Pyl, Dust English language version

Posted on 2021-06-23, 23:36

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by Garrett W

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I believe you can find the credits in this page by one of the creators.

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Re: Diamond Monster 3D + Pentium MMX 223 Staticky Sound Issue

Posted on 2021-06-23, 23:33

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by Garrett W

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Perhaps if you could take photos of your BIOS settings we could all take a look at them and see if something's off. I have a few of things that might be causing you the lower than expected performance: a) If V-Sync is engaged, disable it and see if you get the same results b) Joseph has not …

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Re: Diamond Monster 3D + Pentium MMX 223 Staticky Sound Issue

Posted on 2021-06-23, 16:12

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by Garrett W

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Reverting to the latest reference drivers was a good move, I'd say stick with them and avoid 3rd party hacked drivers or vendor drivers for the meantime. "SET SST GRX_CLK=57" overclocks your Voodoo1 from 50 to 57MHz. I've seen custom drivers overclock it to 60 MHz. Some cards may be better …

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Re: Acceptable 3d accelerator for Pentium MMX era.

Posted on 2021-06-16, 13:34

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by Garrett W

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Of the games you mentioned OP, only the following provide support for 3D acceleration: NFS Porsche (Glide & D3D) Turok (Glide & D3D) Populous 3 (D3D) Carmageddon 2 (Glide? & D3D) Half-Life (oGL & D3D) The rest of the games are 2D only and unless your display adapter is exceptionally slow (the S3 …

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Re: Are K6-iii chips obtainable?

Posted on 2021-06-16, 10:21

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by Garrett W

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I have the opposite experience with my K6-III+ CPUs. I've owned 3 of them (400ATZ) and none of them was ever able to hit 600MHz reliably, even with voltage bumps. One of them was mostly stable, but it would always hang at some point. I've tried with different mainboards even but to no avail. 550MHz …

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